?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Connectionist+Inference+Models&rft.creator=Browne%2C+Antony&rft.creator=Sun%2C+Ron&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.description=The+performance+of+symbolic+inference+tasks+has+long+been+a+challenge+to+connectionists.+In+this+paper%2C+we+present+an+extended+survey+of+this+area.+Existing+connectionist+inference+systems+are+reviewed%2C+with+particular+reference+to+how+they+perform+variable+binding+and+rule-based+reasoning%2C+and+whether+they+involve+distributed+or+localist+representations.+The+benefits+and+disadvantages+of+different+representations+and+systems+are+outlined%2C+and+conclusions+drawn+regarding+the+capabilities+of+connectionist+inference+systems+when+compared+with+symbolic+inference+systems+or+when+used+for+cognitive+modeling.%0A&rft.publisher=Pergamon&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1788%2F1%2FBroSunPreprint.pdf&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1788%2F5%2FBroSunPreprint.ps&rft.identifier=++Browne%2C+Antony+and+Sun%2C+Ron++(2001)+Connectionist+Inference+Models.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1788%2F